Zero-Day Flaws an Evolving Weapon in Ransomware Groups’ Arsenals

Ransomware gangs have for years gotten their malicious payloads into targeted systems primarily through phishing attacks or being dropped as a secondary payload from command-and-control frameworks. That is changing, according to researchers with cybersecurity and content delivery networking vendor Akamai. To skirt past defense mechanisms put in place by security teams, threat groups are aggressively..

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